Monday, June 30, 2008

As promised, I have redone Wordle’s handling of so-called “stopwords”, words that are too common to visualize in most cases. Now, when you give Wordle some text, it does its best to figure out what language the text is in, and hides the stopwords for that language. Of course, as before, you can ask Wordle not to remove common words, via the “Language” menu.

I still need stopwords for Hebrew, Nepali, and (of course) many other languages. Please let me know, dear Wordle users, if you can scrape up these or any others that I’ve missed.